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This book explores unique and out-of-the-box faculty-led student travel, whether abroad or domestically. Contributors argue in favor of unique and innovative forms of undergraduate student travel, travel that eschews the all-too-ubiquitous pre-packaged and overpriced programs that remain prevalent.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Leading Student Travel: First the Hard Work and Then the Serendipity, by Irina Gendelman & Jeff Birkenstein
Chapter 1: Following Tour Buses: Teaching the Tourist Circuit, by Jana Mathews & Emily Russell
Chapter 2: Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, and Identifying the Common Good in International Travel, by Ann D. Summerall-Jabro
Chapter 3: Judging More Justly: Travel as an Encounter with the Other, by Raymond Blanton
Chapter 4: Building and Sustaining a Faculty-Led Russian-American Summer Language Exchange, by Igor Krasnov, Jamie Olson, & Karen Rosenflanz
Chapter 5: Master's Program Summer Abroad: Enhancing the Education Experience, by Joshua Azriel & Jeannine Jones
Chapter 6: Folklore and Photography: An Economically Feasible Study Abroad Experience, by Christine Holtz & Heather Pinson
Chapter 7: Film Study Abroad: Immersive, Experiential Learning Through Social Documentary, by Robin Canfield
Chapter 8: Exploring Culture Through Prosocial Storytelling, by Gwendelyn S. Nisbett & Tracy Everbach
Chapter 9: Mapping Future Career Paths through a Middle East Study Tour, by Mat Hardy & Sally Totman Marshall
Chapter 10: Multimedia Storytelling: Using Global and Student-Centered Learning to Reproduce Travel, by Nicholas Artman & Douglas Strahler
Chapter 11: The Psychology and Literature of Cults: Interdisciplinarity, Experiential Learning, and Team-Taught Travel, by Alissa Burger & Kelli Stiles
Chapter 12: Exploring Public Culture and Memorialization as (Re)production of National and Cultural Identity, by Shana Kopaczewski & Darlene Hantzis
Chapter 13: Exploring the History of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Kingdom, by Michelle Fukuyama & Cord A. Scott
Chapter 14: War, Memory, and National Identity: Perspective Taking in Cambodia and Vietnam, by Patricia English-Schneider & Phillip Voight
Chapter 15: Close Encounters with Cities: Analyzing and Composing the Rhetoric of Urban Areas, by Kathleen M. Vandenberg
Traveling Writers' Biographies
About the author
Edited by Irina Gendelman and Jeff Birkenstein - Contributions by Nicholas Artman; Joshua Azriel; Jeff Birkenstein; Patricia English-Schneider; Irina Gendelman; Darlene M. Hantzis; Mat Hardy; Christine Holtz; Ann D. Jabro; Jeannine Jones; Shana Kopaczewsk
Summary
This book explores unique and out-of-the-box faculty-led student travel, whether abroad or domestically. Contributors argue in favor of unique and innovative forms of undergraduate student travel, travel that eschews the all-too-ubiquitous pre-packaged and overpriced programs that remain prevalent.
